Instead of rolling down the fairway after a striped drive, golf carts have swerved into the middle of America’s trade tensions with China.

With Chinese-based companies importing golf carts that some believe are cheaply made and undervalued, domestic United States brands have faced increasingly difficult paths toward fairly competing. While U.S.-based Club Car and E-Z-GO’s cheapest listed golf carts online are and , respectively, Ali Express, an online retail service based in China, offers golf carts that can be .

That disadvantage, however, could be erased with by the International Trade Commission, with Chinese golf cart companies facing tariffs that range from 31 percent to 679 percent.

The regular golfer, of course, doesn’t pay the cost for a golf cart each time they play a round. In

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